A Robotic Odyssey

By Lynn, on March 23rd, 2012%

Even as I was typing in the title of my post, I wondered: will anyone be interested enough in robots to come see?  Perhaps I should be sure and include a line that says to moms to bring the scientifically and creatively oriented children along.  Or, last but not least, is Lynn dressed like a robot today?

No, friends, I was at one of my favorite places yesterday!  The Scrap Exchange.  From the monkey at the counter…

to the beautifully old framed prints and pictures…

to the bright cardboard sunshine hanging up in the store…

to the — is that really a wall of cassette tapes? — yes, the wall of cassette tapes, I had a really good outing yesterday.  I limited myself as far as time, because we all know I could spend the day in there!  But I really went in search of more old magazines for my collection and I was not disappointed!  I found a May 1931 issue of Better Homes and Gardens.  More about that another day.

Usually The Scrap Exchange has some type of exhibit going on, where people create things along a theme and then those things get displayed.  I show you, Robots!

This first one, below, is my favorite!!  Does it look real or what?

Today’s a different sort of day for me, friends!  Usually I dress up for ME each day, which is who we really should dress to please every day anyway, except of course that we would also dress for the standard we have set for ourselves as far as how we ought to dress.  But the point is, whether I am here at home or out all day, I do dress up every day and treat the day like a work day.  At any rate, today I will be working at the hospital!  Oh fun!

Ready to go, but only after a quick walk with Annie.

And Annie says she wants to stay out all day long!

Enjoy this day!

2 comments   Fashion, Medical Transcription, Pets, Working and Homeschooling

Lynn Find

By Lynn, on September 27th, 2010%

You know those books where you try and find Waldo?  Or the I Spy books?  I hope no one’s looking for me.  I’ve been all over and I’ve had somewhat of a blogger’s block lately.  I think it’s because I have so much catching up to do and life has been SO busy, I’m having a hard time knowing where to start!

My work schedule, as you know, has me working more days a week, but shorter days.  I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed this morning but still liking it at the same time.  Annie still keeps me company.  In the picture above, Michaela shook Annie awake and snapped a picture.  Annie faithfully curls up behind me and sleeps while I type.  She’s a good back warmer.  :)

Michaela and I are enjoying the little goldfish pond very much.  It’s a very nice place to sit and watch the butterflies or just have a mother-daughter moment.  I can never get enough of those it seems. 

Today’s a busy day for sure!  Work, planning for a co-op I’ll be co-teaching this Thursday, planning supper, and running some errands before work starts.  Sigh.

Enjoy this Monday!   It’s raining here today!  Joy!  We surely needed it.

4 comments   Goldfish Pond, Medical Transcription, Working and Homeschooling

~A Good Wednesday Morning~

By Lynn, on September 22nd, 2010%

Just popping in to say hello.  My work schedule has me working more days a week now, but fewer hours each day.  At first I was resistant, but I think I am going to love it.  It brings more balance to my week.  It was really hard having three full days off and basicallybecoming a “lady of leisure” and then having to jump back in and do two or three long, full days!  This way, I stay more plugged into what’s going on at work but I have spare hours every day.  Hopefully it will continue to work out.

Just wanted to share some pictures from around my little goldfish pond, which, by the way, has been built up a bit more around the edges with some inexpensive pavers placed under the nicer rocks.  The plastic liner is not so visible now.

I did work on my website last night, adding a page of coloring pages.  Want to see how that’s turning out?  I would love any feedback.  I have a lot more to add.  Any suggestions/info that anyone has on copyright would be appreciated as well.  I have read the copyright laws and I think I understand what I’m reading.  I do search for info on each image.  Anyway.

The Healthy Homeschool — coloring pages

By the looks of it, we should have a ton of black swallowtails in the next month or two, unless it gets too cold and they are forced to try overwintering.

In trying to get accustomed to my new schedule, I have not had much time to respond to comments here, but I do plan to!  I appreciate all of you and all of your comments.  I read each and every one!

That’s all for now.  Enjoy this day.

8 comments   Goldfish Pond, Homeschooling Links, Medical Transcription, Working and Homeschooling

Something To Look Forward To

By Lynn, on July 5th, 2010%

This past Saturday was the second Saturday that I have set up with my mom at a local farmer’s market.   What that means for me is that I type 8 hours on Friday, which tends to be a long day.  As you know, housework, errands, mouths to feed, and child-related responsibilities don’t disappear just because I work!  So I usually end up not getting to bed before midnight onFriday nights.  On Saturday morning I jump into my already-packed van (that’s the goal, anyway!) with my cup of hot coffee, and I meet my mom at the farmer’s market where we laugh and talk and sell things for a few hours.  I have to be home and in my work desk by noon, where I work (type) another 8-hour shift and then my weekend is done.  Once again, it seems impossible to get to bed before midnight, even if I do not do the farmer’s market.

Having said all that, there’s something about the farmer’s market that makes me really happy.   It allows me to work at what I really love doing, and hopefully some day that will be all I do for an income:  something I really enjoy.   It gives me something to look forward to.

For the 4th, we did not head out to watch a fireworks display, though that would have been mighty fun.  Instead, Michaela and I went through a few boxes of sparklers.   I marched back and forth in front of the house a few times, saying in my best British accent, “I, John Adams, do proclaim that we are free from the British!!”

Michaela said in her best 11-year-old daughter accent, “Mom, be quiet!”

Then we called each other Abigail and Betsy.

It was a long, tiring but very good weekend.

10 comments   Cottage Industry, Holidays, Medical Transcription, Working and Homeschooling

Medical Transcription Lunch Break

By Lynn, on August 9th, 2008%

Garden sight-seeing on lunch break from my medical transcription job.  Yes, the day is half over!  Doesn’t it go by fast?  See?  I can do this.  Yes, I can.

Isn’t he cute?  Sort of? Just a little bit? He’s sitting on some tansy that looks so ragged each year, it’ll be gone or moved next year.  Hopefully.

A huge praying mantis…

looks up at me.  As if about to jump.  Whoa.  I’ll back up.  You just stay put!  Before I scream and break something climbing running down out of this terraced flower bed.

Here is another shot of the unknown plant, with its pretty yellow blooms that have just appeared.  I had a comment from Vanillalotus that it appears to be Cassia alata or Senna alata.  Vanillalotus, I would love your opinion now that it is blooming.

We now return to our previously scheduled programming:  medical transcription.

Thinking of redoing my sewing/craft desk,

and of new plants,

and of redoing some of my website work,

and of going shopping for “new” old postcards,

and of two new shower curtains.  In white…

and so much more.  Spray painting stuff, clothes shopping at GW Boutique…

So long.

Lynn

 

7 comments   Gardening, Medical Transcription

Type and Dream

By Lynn, on May 16th, 2008%

I have really enjoyed my job today.  I cannot explain it, but a part of me has been restored.  I’ll stop with that thought.  It takes knowing all the ins and outs of where I’ve been and what we’ve been through to understand.

The sunlight coming into my office window was just the right amount this morning.  Not too bright.  Just enough to boost my sense of well being.  I don’t like getting a tan, but I do enjoy being outside and getting indirect sunlight.  I’m too fair to be trying to tan!

I take two 15-minute breaks and a half-hour lunch on each 8-1/2-hour work day.  It is so nice to be able to step out into the garden during those times.  I was starving during my first break, having skipped breakfast to continue on a little longer with my green tea, so I ate voraciously during my first break! 

During my lunch, I actually potted up a pale pink petunia.  Miss Petunia was quite the match for a worn-out enamelware pot.  The pot was what I’d been using to collect food scraps by the kitchen sink for years.  A hole finally wore into the bottom of it.  It’s a planter now.

The view from the steps where I ate my lunch is, of course, my little garden.  It’s amazing how quickly this bed is filling in and becoming a little mini-jungle.  I remember when it was mostly bare mulch in the center. 

And the wild grapevine on this thing just gets bigger and bigger.  I must get some traps for controlling Japanese beetles that will soon arrive to shred its leaves.

This red rose was all wet with rain and beautiful this morning. 

And this very young astilbe plant seems to be thriving.  I can’t wait to see it in 2 or 3 years.

The chocolate mint — rising up behind the old sundial — is quietly creeping out of its original little plot.  Lucky for chocolate mint that I like it.  I’m sure by this summer I’ll be pulling out huge armfuls of it.  And then again next spring, Lord willing, I’ll be glad to see the chocolate mint proliferating again.  It’s a yearly cycle that chocolate mint and I go through.

As far as my title, “type and dream,” it’s truly an exercise of the mind to be able to stay put for 8 hours.  It’s good for a person to think, and 8 hours is a lot of thinking.

I must be off to bed.  Tomorrow is a medical transcription day!

Lynn

4 comments   Gardening, Medical Transcription, Working and Homeschooling